Mission Control (OS X)

Mission Control is a function to list of open windows and full-screen apps of OS X, which was introduced with version 10.3 " Panther" and up to version 10.6 " Exposé " was.

After pressing a hotkey ( default F3, formerly F9) are either reduced all open windows of all active programs or only the windows of the current program in the foreground and illustrated playing cards on the desktop. The user can then select the window, with whom he wants to work with next, and continue working with it. Furthermore, all windows can be moved at once from the visible range to allow unhindered access to the desktop background. Mission Control is also required for the management of virtual desks in OS X, thereby allowing the user to move the desks, delete, or create new ones.

In addition, you can also from the Mission Control Launchpad as a normal program start or activate by moving the mouse pointer to a corner of the screen ( so-called "active corners ").

On machines that support Quartz Extreme, the appearance of the window is updated in real time. However, Mission Control works on computers without a Quartz Extreme support.

Mission Control was modeled for other operating systems. So there is for Windows XP and iEx for Unix Skippy (will not be further developed ), Compiz. Windows Vista includes a similar function, in which the window in three dimensions in a series orders to command consecutively. The GNOME Shell has with the so-called activity - mode a similar function.

• Mac OS operating system component
• Apple program